Dov Weissglass

Dov Weissglass was born in 1946

Dov Weissglass was born in Tel Aviv on 4 October 1946 to an affluent family. He grew up in Ramat Gan and finished the Ohel Shem high school. He is married to Louise Weissglas, and they have 3 daughters.

After serving in the IDF, he studied law. He interned at the Tel Aviv District Court and received his law license in 1971.

In 1971 he joined the law firm Moritz & Margolis, became a partner in 1978 and bought the firm with Amir Almagor in 1984. He represented public figures such as Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert, often in libel suits against newspapers. He also represented officials before several commissions of inquiry.

He met Ariel Sharon in 1982 and later became his personal lawyer. From 2002 to August 2004 he headed Sharon's bureau, negotiated with Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell, and helped plan the disengagement from Gaza. He then served as a special adviser to Sharon and later to Ehud Olmert.

In June 2006 he became chairman of the board of Bezeq. In 2009 he briefly advised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In 2012 he published a book about Ariel Sharon.